By SHANE HARRIS, CAROL E. LEE and JULIAN E. BARNES March 30, 2017 WASHINGTON—Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge […]
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ADAM GOLDMAN MARCH 30, 2017 WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American […]
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger March 29 In June, a Belarusan American businessman who goes by the name Sergei Millian shared some tantalizing claims about Donald Trump. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Trump had a long-standing relationship with Russian officials, Millian told an associate, and those officials were now feeding Trump damaging information […]
BY JOSH SAUL AND MAX KUTNER 3/29/17 Updated: FBI Director James Comey attempted to go public as early as the summer of 2016 with information on Russia’s campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, but Obama administration officials blocked him from doing so, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Newsweek. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. Well before […]
By Grant Gross Senior Editor, IDG News Service | MAR 30, 2017 The Russian government used “thousands” of internet trolls and bots to spread fake news, in addition to hacking into political campaigns leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, according to one lawmaker. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Disinformation spread on social media was designed to […]
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and RACHEL ABRAMS MARCH 29, 2017 Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of President Trump, is becoming an official government employee, joining her husband, Jared Kushner, in serving as an unpaid adviser to her father in the White House. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT story. The announcement on Wednesday amounts to the formal recognition […]
by Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein Mar 28, 2017 Paul J. Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager facing multiple investigations for his political and financial ties to Russia, has engaged in a series of puzzling real estate deals in New York City over the past 11 years. Real estate and law enforcement experts say some of these transactions fit […]
Michael Isikoff March 27, 2017 The House intelligence committee investigation into Russian interference in last year’s election was thrown into new turmoil Monday night, after the ranking Democrat on the panel called on the Republican chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to “recuse himself from any further involvement.” CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story The call by […]
By Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous March 28 The Trump administration sought to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying in the House investigation of possible links between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s campaign, according to letters provided to The Washington Post. The effort to keep Yates from testifying has further angered Democrats, who have accused Republicans […]
By JO BECKER, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MAGGIE HABERMAN MARCH 27 Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin, according to administration and congressional officials. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to video. CLICK HERE: for […]
